Convoluted Quote by Neil Shubin Download Open image “We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history.” — Neil Shubin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Convoluted Convoluted History Designed Rationally History Products Convoluted Rationally
We led with our conviction rather than rational, because rational said it was impossible. — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
You can't statistically explain improbable things like living creatures by saying that they must have been designed because you're still left to explain the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Our creator did not create our raw material, but manipulated that which already existed. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“For man to enter history as the rational animal, it was necessary for him to be convinced that the objects of his reasoning, the… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence. — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“History cannot be logically constructed any more than a scientific event, if only because it involves the process of vague and indefinable concepts which… — Ludwik Fleck Copy Share Image
“... two little patches of tissue essentially control the development of the pattern of bones inside limbs. A strip of tissue at the extreme… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“In areas close to the ZPA, where there is a high concentration of this molecule, cells would respond by making a pinky. In the… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“All the genetic switches that make fingers, arm bones, and toes do their thing during the third to eighth week after conception.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“My building was constructed in 1896, and the utilities reflect an odd design that has been jerry-rigged further with each renovation. If you want… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“So here is the trick to designing a new fossil expedition: find rocks that are of the right age, of the right type (sedimentary),… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Our hundreds of useless olfactory genes are left over from mammal ancestors who relied more heavily on the sense of smell to survive ...… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The retina absorbs the light via sensitive light-gathering cells ... In humans these cells make up about 70 percent of all the sensory cells… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Some fish, for example the lungfish, have the one bone at the base. Other fish, for example Eusthenopteron, have the one bone–two bones arrangement.… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The key to tooth development is that an interaction between these two layers of tissue, an outer sheet of cells and an inner loose… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“The molecules that allow microbes to catch their prey and hold on to them are likely candidates for the molecules that form the rivet… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Whole batteries of genes are turned on and off during fly development, and this pattern of gene activity serves to demarcate the different regions… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“The documents were in English—sort of—but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even… — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain. — Benjamin Hart Copy Share Image
That's what life is, it's the small struggles. You walk down the street for half an hour, you see half an hour of drama.… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is not the kind of guy we want in the Oval Office leading America. We do not want somebody who doesn't like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings. — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
“They were often convoluted, and unless it was a state-of-the-art facility, they’d layer new systems on top of the old, ultimately spending more to… — Allison Brennan Copy Share Image
Islam is the religion of peace. We say that jokingly. That's actually the position of the US government. It's rooted in political correctness and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The only other scenario that could explain everything, up to and including your own bizarre apperance, is a convoluted conspiracy theory involving the Russian… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
